Re: RFS: HexWalk Request for sponsor

[Samuel Henrique <samueloph@debian.org>]

Hello carmix,

> I would like to have it into Debian and I have started following the guides
> so I packaged it on mentors:
>
> https://mentors.debian.net/package/hexwalk/
>
> I made a ITP and a RFS, now I need a sponsor, I saw that in this
> team there is ImHex software that is something similar to mine, so I think this should be the right place where to put it,

I don't see any issue with maintaining the package under the team, although we
will have to talk about how the packaging will be done.

I see that the package lists https://github.com/gcarmix/hexwalk as the
Vcs-Browser field in d/control. That field should point to a repository that
contains the packaging source, and I don't see that in github. Maybe you had
the intention of pushing that only after the package was uploaded, but I would
like to understand your plan regarding this.

Ideally, we should have the packaging done on salsa under our team at
https://salsa.debian.org/groups/pkg-security-team/, do you intend to do that or
to keep the packaging merged with the upstream code on Github? That's a
possibility, but it will make it considerably harder for other Debian
contributors to help, but keeping it on salsa will add some overhead to you as
upstream and maintainer, as you would have to keep the packaging somewhere
else.

For the review itself, can you push the packaging in the form of a git
repository? You can create a repo on salsa under you username or push it to
github for now, at least.

Regards,

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Samuel Henrique <samueloph>